Daily Times

TAKHTBHAI: Tug of war for attaining the power is continue between District Nazim Mardan and District Health Officer (DHO) Mardan has made Tehsil Headquarter (THQ) Hospital Takhtbhai a mere building without basic health facilities for countless patients of the area. The project of tehsil headquarters hospital Takhtbhai was initiated during the Muttahida Majlis-e-Amal (MMA) government and was completed by Awami National Party (ANP) government and then chief minister Amir Haider Khan Hoti inaugurated it. When this scribe visit to the THQ hospital Takhtbhai there were immense problems facing by the patients as there was no clean system in Out-door patients department (OPD) of the hospital while Labor Room and emergency department of the hospital lack basic facilities for the patients. In the hospital X-ray department has no plates to provide X-ray facilities to patients while the patients were compelled to do their x-rays from market with high rates. In the hospital there was a generator available but no fuel and maintenance made this machine useless while the doctors were doing surgeries and operations with mobile batteries in the evening shift. In THQ hospital Takhtbhai has ambulance no: 1614 standing in the garage of the hospital for the last many years but the hospital administration has no fund for its maintenance and repairing. In the hospital there was a mortuary for postmortem but because of the lack of facilities the morgue of the hospital was not functional and postmortem were done by the doctors in open space of the hospital.